by Ronnie Hess | May 1, 2017 | Magazine Article
Thomas J. Erickson’s first full-length poetry collection, The Biology of Consciousness, stopped me dead in my tracks, even before I cracked the cover. What on earth could the book or its title poem mean? Various sources tell me this: while not understood, the biology...
by Lisa Vihos | May 1, 2017 | Magazine Article
My measure of a poem’s quality is often found in the question, “How did the poet think of that?” If that poem should happen to begin an entire collection that has me asking that same question again and again, well, then I know I have something really special in my...
by Jason Smith | May 1, 2017 | Magazine Article
Novelist Nickolas Butler isn’t afraid to tackle big ideas in his writing. Set in a rural Wisconsin town, his first novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, is an exploration of friendship and the ties that bind us to home. Butler’s sophomore effort, set in and around the fictional...
by C. Kubasta, Mollie Oblinger | Apr 28, 2017 | Magazine Article
When poets and visual artists work together, they negotiate a shared language. In collaboration, they explore how their work, well, works together: both engage with form and shape, utilize symbolic thought, and explore metaphor of various kinds. Materials change and...
by B.J. Hollars | Apr 28, 2017 | Magazine Article
On a sunny autumn morning in 2011, I found myself facing a room full of African-American literature students at the University of Alabama. I’d recently completed my graduate work there, and had stayed on as an instructor in the English Department to teach composition,...
